Global Partnerships

Mexico

UAlberta continues to develop relations with Mexico, particularly in the area of energy. In 2014, Mexico introduced sweeping energy reforms ending 75 years of state oil and gas monopoly, created a Ministry of Energy Hydrocarbon Fund, and signaled interest in partnerships to address its energy sector’s need for skilled workers, new technologies, projects and policies to further its energy reform.

Energy

In 2017, UAlberta received $14.6M CDN from the Energy Hydrocarbon Fund to help Mexico transform its energy sector. One of the first Canadian universities partnering with Mexico on such research. Our joint projects include:

A collaboration with the Mexican Petroleum Institute to better understand how oil and gas flows in naturally fractured reservoirs. UAlberta is home to a lab, one of only a few in the world, to use 3D printing to recreate reservoir fractures and rock formations. Rather than relying solely on numerical models, 3D models enable researchers to flow real fluids through and observe their actual behaviour.